March 16, 2003
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Letter
On this date in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel
“The Scarlet Letter” was first published.
“Ye see how large a letter
I have written….”
— St. Paul, Galatians
Chapter 6, Verse 11
Einstein and Oppenheimer
at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton
Einstein wrote a rather
famous letter to FDR;
Oppenheimer is known as
the father of the A-bomb.
Song of God
From the Hindu holy scripture Bhagavad Gita (Song of God):
“Of orators, I am the speech; of letters the first one, A; I am imperishable time; the Creator whose face is everywhere; death that devours all things.”
— Bhagavad Gita 10.32-33,
tr. by Stephen Mitchell,
Harmony Books, 2000
“…
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— Suzan-Lori Parks,
playwright,
in today’s New York Times
See also my note of two years ago,
“Random Thoughts for St. Patrick’s Eve.”
For more on Oppenheimer and the Bhagavad Gita, see
